Healthcare Craziness

One of the perils of actually being employed during the worst economic disaster in 70 years is that you sometimes have to put up with some pretty stupid stuff at work. Take, for example, this email recently spammed to the company on the company network by the owner of the company (names have been removed to protect the ignorant):

Just think about these for a second or two..
_______________
Following the mad recommendations of Peter Singer made in NYT’s Sunday
magazine, it pays to take a look at what is actually in the healthcare
bill.

It’s worse than you can possibly imagine. Somehow, it manages to be
Singer on steroids. Who wrote this bill. It has Singer’s footprints all
over it.

Peter Fleckstein (aka Fleckman) is reading it and has been posting on
Twitter his findings. This is from his postings (Note: All comments are
Fleckman’s) _______________

Here:

Pg 22 of the HC Bill MANDATES the Govt will audit books of ALL EMPLOYERS
that self insure!!

Pg 30 Sec 123 of HC bill – THERE WILL BE A GOVT COMMITTEE that decides
what treatments/benes u get

Wow. I sure am scared now. This sounds pretty much like the status quo. God help us if all those health insurance bureaucrats ever get replaced by government bureaucrats. The sender didn’t have the guts or decency to include a copy of the actual bill, though. We’re supposed to accept this screed as fact and get all panicked and worked up about nationalized health care. What bullshit.

Like this:

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Nothing in that message was untruthful though; everything cited in it can be interpreted that way. Whether it will be so, if this bill becomes law in this format, is open to debate.

Frankly, my problems with the “meat” of the AAHCA bill is exactly that. The verbiage is such that the message you received wasn’t wrong or false, just not confirmed as of yet. I’d have preferred language in the bill that included more restraints on what it could be used to do.

But, on the bright side, the bill, if passed as is or close to it, will finally curtail abortions and contraceptives once the Conservatives are back in power again. 😉 As written, it will allow them to do what is needful to make such things difficult to obtain. 😉

Well, we’re both old warhorses that live in the Northeast, drink Guinness, and eat curry. It’s logical that we’d agree on something

Oh yeah, and I’m pretty much your mirror image opposite on the political compass. We’re very close to the same on the Authoritarian-Libertarian axis, but I’m almost exactly as far to the Right as you are to the Left.